4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>

commit a0ebf519b8a2666438d999c62995618c710573e5 upstream.

Make sure to drop the reference taken by class_find_device() also on
allocation errors in open().

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jo...@kernel.org>
Fixes: 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce an abstraction for...")
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/hwtracing/stm/core.c
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
        struct stm_file *stmf;
        struct device *dev;
        unsigned int major = imajor(inode);
-       int err = -ENODEV;
+       int err = -ENOMEM;
 
        dev = class_find_device(&stm_class, NULL, &major, major_match);
        if (!dev)
@@ -369,8 +369,9 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
 
        stmf = kzalloc(sizeof(*stmf), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!stmf)
-               return -ENOMEM;
+               goto err_put_device;
 
+       err = -ENODEV;
        stm_output_init(&stmf->output);
        stmf->stm = to_stm_device(dev);
 
@@ -382,9 +383,10 @@ static int stm_char_open(struct inode *i
        return nonseekable_open(inode, file);
 
 err_free:
+       kfree(stmf);
+err_put_device:
        /* matches class_find_device() above */
        put_device(dev);
-       kfree(stmf);
 
        return err;
 }


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